This should become the MOTTO for the Innovators!!!
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( 3 / 1990 )
Here is a list of "Famous" phrase about Innovation!
Select your preferred one!
1. “Innovation is anything, but business as usual.” (Anonymous).
2. “In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman”. (David Ogilvy).
3. “If at first the idea is not absurd, then there will be no hope for it.” (A. Einstein).
4. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” (A. Warhol).
5. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” (George Bernard Shaw).
6. “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” (Alan Kay).
7. “There are no old roads to new directions.” (Advertisement of the Boston Consulting Group).
8. “Nothing is stronger than habit.” (Ovid).
9. “If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.” (A. Einstein).
10. “Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.” (T. Levitt).
11. “It’s tough when markets change and your people within the company don’t.” (Harvard Business Review).
12. “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” (Goethe).
13. “What we’ve done to encourage innovation is make it ordinary.” (C. Wynett, Procter & Gamble).
14. “To gain customer insights, we must understand that we are prisoners of what we know and what we believe”. (Mohanbir Sawhney).
15. “He who ask a question is a fool for 5 minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool for ever.” (China)
16. “A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.” (A. von Szent-Gyorgyi).
17. “Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises”. (Demosthenes).
18. “You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” (Anonymous).
19. “People who don’t take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year, people who do take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year” (Peter Drucker).
20. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” (R. Emerson).
21. “The impossible is often the untried.” (J. Goodwin).
22. “Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner.” (Tao Te Ching).
23. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” (D. Adams).
24. “The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow” (Rupert Murdoch).
25. “The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.” (Vincent Van Gogh).
26. What is now proved was once only imagined - William Blake
27. A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the "idea" of a cathedral in mind - Antoine Saint-Exupery
28. I want to put a "ding" in the universe - Steve Jobs
29. I am looking for a lot of people who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done- Henry Ford
30. You must do the thing you think you cannot do - Eleanor Roosevelt
31. Genius is infinite painstaking - Michelangelo
32. Not everything that can be counted counts; not everything that counts can be counted - Albert Einstein
33. The act of creation begins first of all as an act of destruction - Pablo Picasso
34. Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans - John Lennon
35 The Best way to get a good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away - Linus Pauling
36. Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once twice a week - G.B. Shaw
37. We have approximately 60.000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before - Deepak Chopra
38. "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often" - Winston Churchill
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( 3 / 1810 )
The biggest question we eco-practitioners get is: “What does the consumer really want?”
The answer is pretty simple: They want no packaging—but in a super-convenient, individually wrapped form. Um … right.
Consumers want convenience, tamper evidence and product safety, and they want the whole affair simply to disappear with little or no effort on their part once the product has been delivered.
Thoughtful consumers don’t want to be reminded of their excesses with more pictures of marine animals killed by eating packaging flotsam and jetsam, or to have to keep personally dealing with the trash that keeps appearing in their yards and parks.
Producers of packaged goods have to take it on themselves to think about what the consumer is really saying, and deliver the packaging we all really need. If you’ve been following the TerraChoice “Misleading Green Marketing Claims” studies over recent years,
it seems too many companies are still treating environmental attributes like buzzwords to be sprinkled around liberally.
In its 2010 study, only 4.5% of the claims that TerraChoice reviewed were accurate (up from 2% in their previous study).
On the other hand, TerraChoice’s “EcoMarkets 2009” report notes that more than half (56.5%) of professional purchasing companies have either a formal or informal sustainability policy.
So, the will to “do something” is certainly out there.
But it’s not enough to say your product does something—you have to be sure it really does it. And, most importantly, be sure that the intended effort really matters. For example, the recyclability of a material that never should have been produced in the first place is not really a plus point to celebrate, and consumers are realizing that fact.
As companies look to create real solutions rather than buzzwords in packaging form, third-party certifiers like TerraChoice’s Eco-Logo and the UL-Environment initiative are teaming up to help sort out what a real solution looks like.
Taking a life cycle approach rather than looking at a single attribute, they’re considering the entire system of consumer goods manufacturing.
This is actually a huge step toward finding long-term solutions.
And, by using the market to help drive change, certifications can realize changes faster than waiting for legislators who are often more reactive than proactive.
While the consumer might wish that those of us in industry can simply snap our fingers and make eco-happiness occur overnight, we all know it will take incremental changes both in technology and consumers’ habits to make change stick.
Our task is to keep plugging away and do the best we can to make only what we really need.
Having come a long way from using old-growth wood to trying to create more sustainable game-changing products, Kimberly-Clark has come very close to making no-package a reality.
The company’s new tubeless rolls of toilet paper can help make a dent in reducing the 160 million pounds of toilet paper tubes produced annually in the U.S. that are destined for the trash.
Eliminating the need for tubes altogether is a big deal, because, surprisingly, many curbside recycling programs do not process paperboard tubes.
The gains from this simple initiative include resource demand reduction, manufacturing efficiencies, lower transport energy use, and trash reduction.
One can see the simple question Kimberly-Clark may have asked themselves: Do people want tubes of toilet paper or do they just want to feel clean?
Wendy Jedlicka, CPP, is with Jedlicka Design Ltd.
(www.jedlicka.com),
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( 3.1 / 1833 )
Bottleclips , patented and developed by BTC Concept company, is claimed to be the first stackable and lockable bottle launched on the market.
The bottle can be stacked and clipped to become a single packaging container , for example several different beverages.
The Bottleclips concept was born from a simple question: How to save spaces in the fridge?
It was about filling a solution to optimize storage and fill spaces lost with conventional bottles,
Clipping bottles has emerged as e key feature which is practical and fun for use at home, at the office or when "on the go".
The main innovation at the heart of BottleClips is the "clipping system" that BTC Concept developed and patented internationally.
It is integrated to the bottle produced by injection blow moulding of PET, PE and PP.
This new packaging concept is suitable for beverages and many other applications, allowing for the assembly of products, multi-brand or multi-flavours without overpack.
Thus, at the time of purchase, the consumer can customize the product by selecting, flavors.
The solution is adaptable and the volume of container can help be up to 1 litre with customizable shapes (identical or not).
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( 3 / 1922 )
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